So, the past couple weeks I have been working diligently on my Arbor sweater (after a LONG hiatus of about a year) and tonight I hit a huge road block.
I have gotten past the bust to where the ribbing starts, and like the crazy person I am, I am like oh! I should go and finish the sleeves and collar so when I finish the bottom I am finished! SO SMART!
Anyway, I used my second size 3 circ and went and finished one arm off. DONE! Then I went and finished the other arm off. DONE! That was easy.
So tonight I went and picked up (what felt like a million) stitches for the neckline. I do the little decrease like it says, I try it on, collar is still WAY too big. I do another round of decreases. I try it on again, still to big. I do a final round of decreases (many fewer on this round). I try it on, perfect! So then I go to the pattern, ok applied i-cord bind off. Never done that before. So I look up the Knitty instructions and think, huh, that looks easy enough.
So off I go, I do my little i-cord bind off. I think huh, this is coming out really tight. What should be like 4 inches is now like 2. So I rip that out (which sucked with tight decreases going on below this). So then I am like, oh, I will just go up to a size 5, that should do the trick. So I start with the size 5 (that I managed to drop A LOT!). After a few stitches it still seems tight, so I have the brilliant idea to just do an i-cord row every couple stitches to give it some slack. So I am chugging along watching American Idol and I get over a shoulder and I notice, huh this is still TOO DANG TIGHT! What is the stupid applied i-cord doing?!?!?! So I had to undo all of that AGAIN! It is now taking a time out in my knitting basket.
My question to you (please comment and tell me what you think) is what should I do? I liked the look of the applied i-cord but it is being a pain in my butt. Do I i-cord in between each applied i-cord stitch (which would create a lot of holes I think). Do I do my stretchy bindoff where instead of lifting the right stitch over the left stitch (after you have knit two) you knit back through them? The sleeves were just garter stitch, should I do that for consistency? Should I go back and undo a row of decreases to make up for the decreasyness of the bind-off? Do I try something else? Grrrr. Unfortunately I am too tired to take a picture to show you all what it is exactly I am talking about.
Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions?
(I was going to share with you the fun new yarn I spun, but because of this drama that will have to wait for another day)
Thank you!
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